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Newspaper
Muscatine Journal
Location
Muscatine, Iowa, United States of America
Date
Aug 15, 1933
Page
2
A school cafeteria report shows meals cost pupils 11 1 3 cents on average for the past year at the high school cafeteria. Over 300 meals were served across 174 days, with a daily range from 31 to 127. Net profit was 45 dollars and second-year balances included canned goods and multiple accounts totaling 2 735 84 in credits.
The 58 year old former actress Ella M. Schrodt was found with a deep gash over the right temple in a Mount Rainier Maryland bedroom. John C. Mulligan, 45, who lives at the same address, was arrested and held without bond.
Wapello and surrounding towns host a flurry of visiting relatives and friends from Chicago Newton Grandview and Media Ill. Attendees share meals dine with locals attend services and attend a sacred concert at the Methodist church led by Prof. Raymond Kreiner.
Columbus Junction news notes Wilcox and Byrnes wedding and honeymoon plans. Genevieve Byrnes married July 23 and left with husband for Portsmouth before sailing to Paris for a European honeymoon. The article also updates several residents’ health moves and travel to Chicago for relatives.
News reaches Conesville of the death of John Daniels a former resident of Conesville and Letts. He passed Monday following complications of old age. Funeral services are set for 2:30 p.m. Wednesday at the Reformed church in Conesville with burial to follow. He had lately resided with his sister in law Mrs. Mary Daniels in Iowa City.
Kansas state treasurer Tom B. Boyd, serving a third term, faced arrest and impeachment in a $150,000 bond scandal. Gov. Alf M. Landon urged Boyd to resign after directing a warrant, with charges alleging unlawful conversion of state funds to Finney. Finney and Caldwell were arrested on forged-bond related charges.
Moris Cohen, 38, is held for slaying Police Officer Joseph Hastings during a $600 payroll holdup at Navy Pier. A citywide search continues for the second suspect known as Hymie, whom Cohen accuses of firing the fatal shot. Cohen was wounded and captured after a garage confrontation attempting to staunch his bleeding.
Vienna reports say Has san Bey Pristina, Albania’s former premier, was assassinated in Salonika Greece. Ibraham Tselo a 25 year old Albanian confessed saying he acted to avenge relatives executed in Albania. Pristina, 55, led Albania in 1926 before exile and opposition to King Zog.
Three Iowans were killed and eleven injured in automobile accidents across several states on Monday. The Associated Press report notes some injuries were serious and lists no additional names.
Tipton friends and family report the death of Ed Chase a Spanish-American War veteran and former Tipton resident. He served in Company F 49th Iowa and was part of a large local contingent in that unit. No other details were provided.
Tipton-Clair Hoyt, a Cedar County farmer near Tipton, was fined 50 dollars and costs after pleading guilty to resisting an officer when arraigned before Justice E C Gillam. Forty dollars of the fine was remitted. The charge stemmed from allegedly breaking away from State Automobile Inspector C A Russell during arrest for displaying Illinois license plates. Hoyt had moved into the county from Illinois last spring and must pay for license plates for the last half of 1933.
Ralph Bittner 40 shot and killed Har wood Blunt 25 then killed himself before 8 am in Missouri Valley Iowa. Mrs Blunt escaped by leaping through a window. Bittner was a car inspector foreman at Northwestern railroad shops. Blunt was vacation manager for a grocery store chain.
Indiana resumes nickel beer sales with six to seven ounce glasses. Patrons pay a nickel, larger drinks cost a dime. After a period of 3.2 beer on draft, the attorney general ruled drought sales are not prohibited by state law where the beer is consumed on the premises.
A united effort is under way in St. Louis and suburbs to combat encephalitis, with Dr. J. P. Leake joining local physicians. Albert Kissinger, 53, of St. Johns, and David McCulley, 5, of Kirkwood, died Monday, and four others have succumbed since the last of July.
One thousand peasants drown as Yellow River dikes break near Kaifeng Henan Province causing floods across the region. Kaifeng with 175,000 people faces isolation from floodwaters while residents brace walls with sandbags to hold back the rising stream.
Northwestern Bell Telephone Company, active in Iowa, Nebraska, the Dakotas and Minnesota, was approved by the Interstate Commerce Commission to acquire Tri-State Telephone and Telegraph Company. The move, via purchase of Tri-State common stock, aims to improve and economize service especially in St Paul and Minneapolis.
Un Colonel and Mrs Charles A Lindbergh are delayed on a flight from Angmagssalik Greenland to Reykjavik Iceland due to weather conditions. The couple are aboard a transport aircraft en route between Greenland and Iceland.
Cranston speakers listed for the Cranston picnic include Rev. William Suckow and Rev. E L Shaffer. Suckow speaks at 11 AM during the morning program and Shaffer at 1 30 PM in the afternoon schedule. Also appearing on the morning program are John Teeters Harry Meeker and Arlene Eichelberger. On the afternoon program join Rev Shaffer Mr and Mrs Parsons Lois Walters Elizabeth and Alice Townsley.
Hollywood faces a likely settlement as about 5 000 film technicians from 11 major studios consider returning to work following Timothy A. Reardon's recommendation to reinstate them without prejudice. The dispute began over new contracts on hours and pay, with mediation to resolve remaining issues. Interunion tensions with electricians and stage crews were cited as a factor, while progress came as the two unions reached a separate accord.
The Rev. Charles E. Coughlin was subpoenaed to testify before a grand jury probing the closing of Detroit national banks last spring. Senators Couzens and ex bank chairman Wilson W. Mills were ahead on the witness list, and Coughlin may not testify today amid prior controversy over Detroit banking defenses.
William Rock longtime Columbus Junction resident and city mail carrier died at 11 p m Monday after illness since March He was born April 9 1898 and served in the student army training school at Iowa City He married Edna Troxell in 1919 Survived by wife two sons Robert and Warren and his parents Ernest and his wife He was a member of the Muscatine Elk lodge
A Pacific coast labor dispute expands as 150 ranchers and employers drive away 40 agitators near Yakima Washington with national guard requested by A J Elliott TuLare county official. Laborers seek 30 cent hourly pay and 40 hour week amid lettuce and beet plant unrest involving Filipino workers and Philippine labor council leaders.
Funeral services will be held at 2 30 p m Wednesday at the Richie funeral chapel conducted by Rev T M Balcoff. Burial will follow in Columbus City cemetery.
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